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Meaning of overcapacitate | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C2

Definitions

To exhaust the capacity of.

transitive

Examples

“It is a very flat town, and this storm overcapacitated the storm drainage in the city and, believe⟳ you me, it put⟳ Salina under water.”
“More importantly, operational constraints on airport density (maximum service radius restrictions and the limit⟳ of two stops on longhaul trips) tend⟳ to overcapacitate the air network even in the deterministic cases.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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See also

overcapacitated overcapacitates overcapacitating overcapitalize overcapitalized overcapitalizes

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